Part 2- after election day after-march

The group turned onto Van Ness and walked the wrong way through traffic. Earlier, hardly any police had been visible for 4 blocks of Van Ness, but here you could see groups of police arriving in Vans, and 2 dozen following on foot, staying 1-2 blocks away. Hardly any damage was occurring, but someone threw what looked like a pottery shard at an unmarked car with a video camera in it.

The group of ... I'd say 150-200 (difficult to quickly judge who was there) turned onto Turk, and I was worried because police in San Francisco do traditionally box people in for arrest after they reach a certain threshhold, and they don't care who did what. Anyone within the street will be arrested, even if they aren't a protester. The police weren't sharply reacting at the Federal building, except for setting up barriers quickly, but they set up a 'skirmish line' as the sergeant called it, when they went up to Eddy and weren't too far from the shopping area. Lots of people came down from their Tenderloin SRO rooms to ask what was going on.

The bulk of the group was boxed in on Eddy for a while, but like on Mission, the police eventually let them go back out to the west after 5-10 min.

There were some creative chants, but also a lot of 'whose street, our street', and 'this is what a police state looks like ' (just like Iraq and 1960s Greece!) and 'the people united, will never be defeated' (never ever).
They returned to Turk and headed towards Market between 5th and 6th. This is the site where there was a mass arrest last Spring during a big antiwar march. I trailed behind with a few people because it seemed like after 3 hours, and several dozen more police arriving, they were proceeding towards the mass arrest situation. Most of the group was tightly together. And sure enough, they were encircled on the sidewalk at 6th and Market, and a sergeant handed out zip ties.